Goal Achieving 2013, Your Strategic Roadmap, by speaker and coaching expert RJ Lennon, Great Networking and Lunch. Let RJ really help you lay out, define and most importantly achieve your goals. This is in an intimate atmosphere so you really can get the personal attention from RJ that you need.

This is the second training workshop for the New York StartUP! 2013 Business Plan Competition. Learn how to develop a marketing plan for your business. This session will be offered three times in February.

The GVCCC and Wix are pleased to present “Working with Wix,” a 2-hour class designed to help small business owners build and develop their online presence. With Wix, no coding knowledge is necessary to create a beautiful, personalized, unique website. Come learn how to make your very own site and/or e-commerce store!

Are you looking to brand yourself, your business, or organization in 2013? If so, then join Fluent City and Sunny Day Marketing on February 27, 2013 from 5-7pm to find out how you can use a low-cost, effective marketing tool to build your brand.

Cole Stryker will lead a local panel of tech and art innovators exploring web privacy scenarios. Will it disappear? Can we maintain any privacy, will we want to? What are the implications of an all-knowing web?

-A real-time, sneak peek event where business developers engage directly with target clients in various scenarios. This event will be a hands-on workshop designed to help participants develop effective business development skills that cover a wide range of situations. Attendees will work in teams to develop pitches based on pre-determined case studies.

Personal branding is a requirement for success in business. You are competing every day whether you have a job or are looking for one, posit­­ioning for a career move or starting a business. You may already have a brand, but is it the right brand to take you where you want to go? Learn how to stand out from the crowd and achieve your goals with a strong personal brand.

Carolyn Crummey is a business and technology strategist and the owner of VirTasktic (www.virtasktic.com), an agency dedicated to providing high-level virtual services to small businesses and entrepreneurs. A lover of technology and small business, Carolyn has built a career on the intelligent use of technology to increase business efficiency and productivity, which ultimately leads to greater profitability. Carolyn works closely with her clients to understand their challenges and helps them integrate the best technology solutions into their businesses so they too can enjoy great successes.
You can follow Carolyn on Twitter at @CarolynCrummey or @VirTasktic.